[med-svn] r5517 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Charles Plessy]

Author: plessy
Date: 2010-11-26 01:02:08 +0000 (Fri, 26 Nov 2010)
New Revision: 5517

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Mention git-import-dscs --debsnap

This may be especially useful now that we are deleting SVN tag.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2010-11-25 20:06:32 UTC (rev 5516)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2010-11-26 01:02:08 UTC (rev 5517)
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
 		      </para>
 		      </listitem>
 		    </itemizedlist>
+		      <para>It is also possible to prepare a Git repository containing some of the package's history using the command <command>git-import-dscs --debsnap</command> from the helper toolkit <command>git-buildpackage</command>. This will download all the versions of a package available in <ulink url="http://snapshot.debian.org">snapshots.debian.org</ulink> and create tags for each of them. Note that as this paragraph is written, the tool is not aware that <emphasis>backports</emphasis> should be a different branch</para>
 		</sect2>
 	</sect1>
 	<sect1>